by David Lat Two years ago, I was in a hospital bed on the 15th floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, dying of COVID-19. A previously healthy, 44-year-old runner, I found myself impossibly weak, unable to walk 5 feet from my bed to the bathroom without a nurse’s help. I could ...
MORGANTOWN — Thursday marked the two-year anniversary of West Virginia's first COVID-19 cases. Gov. Jim Justice noted the occasion during his Friday COVID briefing with a brief video produced by his staff recalling some of his remarks and urgings along the way — get tested, get masked, ...
In our (hopefully) last The Good, the Bad and the Stupid for the year, we’re going to introduce you to some of West Virginia’s new laws. To keep things consistent, we’ve labeled each bill as “good,” “bad” or “stupid” based on how we’ve categorized it in the past. Good: ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a number of weighty bills on Wednesday – Crossover Day – but perhaps weightiest of all was the bill it didn't pass: the bill to strip the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training of its enforcement powers. That bill was HB 4840, to ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates plowed through a list of 33 bills Tuesday, including two dealing with COVID-19 vaccine, mask and quarantine mandates. Tuesday was the 49th day of the session; Wednesday is Crossover Day when all bills must pass out of their house of origin in order to ...
by Faye Flam Almost everybody wants to be seen as embracing science. That’s true whether they are arguing to take masks off or leave them on, or whether they’re pushing continued caution or a return to normal. The phrase “follow the science” has been used by the left to defend ...